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EBook-of-the-Month
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BOUT THIS BOOK,
Leon Uris wrote: "Unlike anything you've ever read before. An act of astonishing intellectual courage."
Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle is an exploration of the roots of violence in human society.
In this tour-de-force of anthropology, history, and genetics, Bloom uses logic and scientific
argument to conclude that aggression and hatred - or some would say, evil - is not an aberration
of human society, but is fundamental, woven into its very nature.
At once insightful, thought-provoking, and controversial, Bloom's thesis is that genetic forces draw
humans inexorably into groups, in effect creating larger organisms - societies, religions, cultures, nations -
that think with effectively one mind, and that history is a Darwinian contest between these
organisms with war, racism and chauvinism as its inevitable outcome.
From the Roman Empire to Kamikaze pilots, from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to terrorist bombers,
Bloom traces the consequences of his theory, in a book that will both fascinate and frighten.
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